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From the devilish Krampus legend to a spot of disembowelment, the author takes us on a scary romp through Europe's most disturbing festive folklore ...

A widower sets out to understand his wife's death in this tale of memory, trauma and German reunification, from the author of The Reader ...

A rich and vivid history of the Plantagenet cousins and rivals for the English throne ...

A baby is abandoned outside a church in this compelling tale of love and moral crisis in 1960s rural Ireland ...

The writer and illustrator behind more than 150 beloved children's books sold over 25m copies worldwide ...

The leftwing intellectual may be a master of self-justification, but in this book he is clever, cultured and good company ...

Shortlisted for the Booker, passed among families and picked up by Cillian Murphy for the big screen, the Irish writer's razor-sharp fiction leaves you wanting more ...

A biography of the bard of rural England reveals an unexpectedly adventurous sex life ...

Marsden's death was confirmed in a letter from one of two schools he founded saying: 'He died at his desk in his home, doing what he loved, writing'

The author of sprawling SF mega-novels has switched gears for a fast-moving adventure set between Russia and the US ...